What's your favourite flower?

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My grandparents had a running joke regarding those fragrant flowers. Whenever my grandma noticed jasmine or honeysuckle, she’d say to my grandpa, “Oh, doesn’t that smell lovely?” My grandpa would always say something like, “They smell like dirty socks to me,” which would elicit a response of feigned exasperation from my grandma.
 
I would have responded

“If only our dirty socks would smell as good as these flowers.”

Is your grandpa a curmudgeon?
 
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I guess he was 😁. He was a career Navy man, trained to be tough and not let emotions show.
 
Career Navy man eh?

My uncles were also those.

They had interesting stories to tell.
 
He actually served in both World Wars, but he rarely spoke to us about his experiences. My brother and I had long hair back in the '60 and the '70s, so he probably thought hippies like us wouldn’t appreciate his war stories. I wish he were around now so I could ask him about them.
 
These are actually my mother’s favourite flower growing outside her home during her funeral last July. According to her husband, they’ve never bloomed as nicely before.

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(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) Any flower is special when you live in the desert.
 
Well known as the bushman’s toilet paper otherwise known as Rangiora. The back of the leaves can substitute as toilet paper. 😉

The back of the leaves can also be used instead of paper and you can write on them. 🙃

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It has fragrant creamy flowers that are abundant in spring. 😃

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I live in the County of Lancashire , and today’s Feast of Saint Ambrose Barlow , a Lancashire man , reminds me that this part of England had more Catholic martyrs than any other part of the country .

So in their memory

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The Rosa Lancashire

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Well , it’s the Feast of St Hyacinth so we must have

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'Tis the month for September flowering sweet peas .

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I remember receiving a bouquet of these from a good friend a while back.

Brings back memories.

Speaking of memories, this is from before my time but I like it.

 
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